Our educational American Kestrel "Hamilton" is representing!
Most raptors look alike when it comes to the coloring of their plumage. In most cases the female is the larger of the two birds, and one can not tell a male from a female by their color pattern.
In kestrels, however, the females and males are colored differently, making it easy to tell their sex.
The most obvious color difference is that males have a blue-gray wing color and usually have a solid reddish tail with a wide dark sub terminal band and a thin, white terminal stripe at the tip.
The females tend to be brown with black barring all over, including a tail with many thin dark bands.
Anyway you describe him, he is one good lookin' bird !!!
